Friday 1/6: Jon Sindell launches his new book of stories, Family Happiness. Participants in this event include Kyrsten Bean, Michael Crabtree, Steven Kacsmar, Lynn Mundell, and Sandra Wassilie. Free, 7 p.m., Octopus Literary Salon. Saturday 1/7: Aggregate Space Gallery and Featherboard Reading Series will celebrate five years of literature and art with a Small Press […]

In an exclusive interview, The Rumpus sits down with the very funny, very feminist Sandra Bernhard to talk about comedy, mothers, life on the road, and, of course, San Francisco, where she’ll be performing this week.

The forthcoming film Farah Goes Bang, produced by Rumpus contributor Laura Goode, is “a valentine to contemporary feminism, youth in revolt, and the passionate politics of idealism.” Learn more about the film and help the production team reach their Kickstarter goal here.

I didn’t have time to be devastated on the day Adrienne Rich died, but I still couldn’t keep back the tears. Like so many others, Rich was The One to me, America’s greatest living everything I ever wanted to be: a titan of poetry, an icon of feminism. The woman who articulated the fundamental truth […]

The upcoming feature film FARAH GOES BANG is launching CHERRY BOMB [editor’s note: no affiliation to Stephen Elliott’s film Cherry], a new blog from Rumpus contributors Laura Goode and Neelanjana Banerjee. They want to hear all your secrets–in a fun, safe, and beguilingly hush-hush way. Send 300-500 words on the good, bad, and ugly of how […]

Elissa Schappell has assembled her own list of books that have not received all the love they deserve during this 2011 “best of” season. Her endorsements includes Rumpus Book Club pick You Think That’s Bad by Jim Shepard, and Rumpus contributor Laura Goode’s Sister Mischief.

Author of the recently released novel, Sister Mischief, Laura Goode offers some insight into the fiery world of young adult fiction because as it turns out, “Your Mom Reads More YA Than You.” Twitter is one way mothers reveal themselves as highly visible young adult book consumers, and it’s getting increasingly intense. There are a […]

Rumpus contributor Laura Goode, (the most recent contribution being “Albums of Our Lives: Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black”), has just published her first novel. Kudos! Sister Mischief, in which a “gay suburban hip-hopper freaks out her Christian high school–and falls in love–in this righteously funny and totally tender YA debut, for real,” is described by […]

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